Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you to the committee and to all of our panel members who are here today. It's been a very good discussion. I'm also glad to welcome a political science class here in Parliament for this really critical discussion.
We were kind of teasing about Mr. Cullen's answer to the question. When Mr. Bricker was here, his polling numbers said that in August, 3% of Canadians were aware of our committee. We have vaulted to 50% of Canadians being aware of this committee, and if you turn around you'll see that the tables reserved for media are remarkably vacant, as they have been consistently in almost all of our hearings. I'm amazed that we got up to 50% since we're in a media blackout zone.
I want to identify myself as a member of the Canadian Federation of University Women, and I will try to come back to you with some more questions, but I first wanted to address Professor Cross.
I'm grateful to you for focusing on an area we hadn't heard about, but I wonder if I could bring your attention back to something we have heard about, especially since you were an adviser. Perhaps you could describe your role with the New Brunswick Commission on Electoral Reform in a bit more detail. Would you still hold to the recommendation the commission had then for mixed-member proportional?